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Re:DVD Drive Bad

Good indeed. I willkeep in mind to shop at compgeeks next time around.

I have some DVD drives that will only pick pressed copy of DVDs and CDs only. It&#039;s not that the drive is bad but it&#039;s pretty early version of DVDs and they can&#039;t read those burned CDs or DVDs. Buying a newer stuff is the best route to go.

Re:DVD Drive Bad

Re:DVD Drive Bad

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i like vlc for dvds.http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Thnx again. It&#039;s working perfectly with Debian Sid, I didn&#039;t have to any thing other then type apt-get install vlc

In totem, go Edit-&gt;Preferences-&gt;Proprietary Plugins, and extract the contents of the essential codec package into the window that pops up so that all the actual codec files are in the top level directory (ie, there should be no subdirectories, just files).

Finally, make sure you install libdvdcss to play dvds.

Easy as that...you can now play quicktime, most wmv files, all avi and mpegs, and dvds with a really well designed player.